Will Project 98 work on XP?

[Bal Singh]

Hi

I have a user who has installed project 98 on XP, every
time he goes to open the application it crashes, is this a
compatibility problem with XP?


Thanks

 

[Rob Schneider]

Hi

I have a user who has installed project 98 on XP, every
time he goes to open the application it crashes, is this a
compatibility problem with XP?


Thanks

No. XP and Project 98 should work. Do you have SR-1?

Project 98, even with SR-1 is not flawless and I can re-create crashes
in 98. Consider fixing problem easier by upgrading to a current version.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I can't but react here.
Project 98 before the SR-1 was a catastrophy.
Project 98 SR-1 is about the most stable, bug-free product I ever saw from
Microsoft.
There may be a lot of very good resons to upgrade but the quality of 98 SR-1
is definitely not one of them.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
32-495-300 620

 

[Rob Schneider]

Hi,

I can't but react here.
Project 98 before the SR-1 was a catastrophy.
Project 98 SR-1 is about the most stable, bug-free product I ever saw from
Microsoft.
There may be a lot of very good resons to upgrade but the quality of 98 SR-1
is definitely not one of them.

My experience with Project 98 SR-1 was different. It would crash almost
upon demand on both Win 98 and Win NT 4 when including multiple files.
My IT department could not (or was it would not?) fix. A frustrating
saga which was really only solved when I moved to Project 2002.

Other than this crashing problem (which I tried to avoid as much as
possible by not using included files ... although that made life
complicated) ... I agree, Project 98 SR-1 is a stellar product.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Well, I've seen massive usage on NT4 as well as on 98, including pools and
insert projects and never seen THE PRODUCT fail on me.
But I did write a little program to regularly set the resource pools right.
P98 (as 2000, but I do not have experience with 2002) could be brought to
its knees by weird pooling and saving-as of pools and sharers!
So I agree to the word VULNERABLE.

And to say it all, migrating a resource poll and 75 sharers to 2000 has
caused some problems.

Greetings,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
32-495-300 620